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Official NDK APIs are ISO C and C++ standard libraries, a couple of portable libraries like zlib and Android specific APIs.
As of Android 7, any application that tries to link to on-device libraries or do calls that aren't whitelisted just gets killed.
Yes one might successfully do Linux specific calls, but given they aren't part of the stable Android NDK API, any OEM is free to bork those attemps.
In practice, being based on Linux doesn't mean anything for app developers.
Only for those doing system space development, which are Google and the OEMs, noone else.
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Official NDK APIs are ISO C and C++ standard libraries, a couple of portable libraries like zlib and Android specific APIs.
As of Android 7, any application that tries to link to on-device libraries or do calls that aren't whitelisted just gets killed.
Yes one might successfully do Linux specific calls, but given they aren't part of the stable Android NDK API, any OEM is free to bork those attemps.
In practice, being based on Linux doesn't mean anything for app developers.
Only for those doing system space development, which are Google and the OEMs, noone else.